12/31/2011

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - December 31, 2011

Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, speaks to the press as she recovers at the hospital in Kabul on December 31, 2011. Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said on December 27. Sahar Gul, 15, was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern Baghlan province late on December 26, 2011 after her parents reported her disappearance to the police. (AFP/Getty Images/Shah Marai)